Is tithing only for Christians? Would God prosper non-Christians who tithe? Read, below, the living experiences of those who have put tithing to the test. THOUSANDS of our readers have heard of Ed Smith, the man who couldn't afford to tithe. Ed Smith was a well driller. Late in 1933 Ed Smith and his wife began attending services Mr. Armstrong was then holding in a one-room country schoolhouse twelve miles west of Eugene, Oregon. Ed Smith at that time made no profession of Christianity. But he attended services and went up and down the countryside discussing the Bible with his professing Christian neighbors. "You've got to pay tithes," he insisted. "The Bible says so. It's plain!" One of his neighbors soon became irritated.

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